I haven't replaced mine, but I've taken out my HDD and put it back in, so pretty much the same thing. The little blue screw on my old school 80gb model was a pain to remove, literally took me hours and I did the filing step too, after I ripped it to shreds. Very annoying.

No advice though. That happened 6 months ago and I've been trying to remove all memories from that ordeal from my head.

Sarlacc, on comparing .NET to Soccer: And why not? It's a bunch of people running around in circles, feigning pain, and never scoring.

I pretty much scrapped off all the blue from the blue screw. After waiting for my precision screwdriver set to arrive I found out that they were worthless for this task since the screws were put on so tight that I ended using a normal philips and applied a lot of pressure and got it off... then I spend the next two hours trying to take off the ones on the case. And failed.